He and I shouldered backpacks each weighted with 30 pounds of recording equipment.
Try a one-shoulder dress.
Tall and bald, with a loose-limbed, cargo pants-wearing, backpack-on-one-shoulder casualness, Mr. Moverman spoke in his film distributor's loftlike office in downtown Manhattan about the odyssey of making "The Messenger," which, with a budget under $10 million, he portrayed as the little war movie that could.
Any conspiracy theorist, for example, will tell you about the backpack: in the available photographs of Jahar taken at the marathon, he is seen walking in the crowd, carrying a gray backpack easily on one shoulder.
Carrying the backpack with two shoulder straps affects posture and gait less than carrying it on one shoulder.
"Sometimes you see kids with their backpack on just one shoulder, with a lot of weight on it, or very high or very low, which puts a lot of strain on their lower backs," said the sponsor of the bill, Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew, Democrat of Cape May.
If spring was ever to come, he wouldn't have known it then, shivering in the brittle air as he stood with a backpack slung over one shoulder, waiting on a four-foot snowdrift for the No. 118 bus to appear.
The crowd — shoulder to shoulder, backpack to bandanna — sank awkwardly to the sidewalk.
Dressed that day in a polo shirt, with a stuffed backpack hanging off one shoulder, he looked like Waldo on vacation.
He was missing a tooth, and he had a brown backpack over one shoulder that was so jammed with stuff it looked like a thirty-pound Butterball.
The man walked in slowly, shifting the weight of his backpack from one shoulder to the other.
